How many cigarettes in a bottle of wine?

Bassmansam · 30 Mar 2019 at 14:55

AHarvey said:
Brain tumour in the stem partially removed 4 years ago resulting in partial paralysis.

Fought every day to get his life together, exercising, driving, working, exploring etc then in Feb he was feeling run down but carried on. Beginning of March he was taken to the hospital, the tumour had come back and was cancerous. Died on March 14th, Steak & BJ day, just how he would have wanted.

Ah thats awful, sorry to hear that.

RizlaKing · 30 Mar 2019 at 22:56

I have had friends that lived their life as your meant too and still died one of lung cancer and she had never smoked or worked in a smoking environment. There was a thing on facebook a few months back about 2 friends one was running the facebook (sorry i am not familiar with facebook so don't know if there are proper terms) thing as a memorial to the other they had gone through multiple deployments to ghanistan without so much as a scratch the one guy comes home on leave takes his wife out for a meal and drinks they are crossing the road he trips and smacks his head on the kerb and is dead hence my personal belief we all get x amount of time in life and when it's up that's it. Add to that the fact the so called experts tell us this is unhealthy and that is unhealthy and a year or two later it changes i can still remember medical personnel telling me a few eggs a week were something to stop now it's ok it just confuses people.

Uther · 31 Mar 2019 at 02:39

PiKe said:
I thought a glass of red wine every now and then was meant to be beneficial?

That was last week.
Life, nobody gets out alive.

Rroff · 31 Mar 2019 at 03:24

RizlaKing said:
I have had friends that lived their life as your meant too and still died one of lung cancer and she had never smoked or worked in a smoking environment. There was a thing on facebook a few months back about 2 friends one was running the facebook (sorry i am not familiar with facebook so don't know if there are proper terms) thing as a memorial to the other they had gone through multiple deployments to ghanistan without so much as a scratch the one guy comes home on leave takes his wife out for a meal and drinks they are crossing the road he trips and smacks his head on the kerb and is dead hence my personal belief we all get x amount of time in life and when it's up that's it. Add to that the fact the so called experts tell us this is unhealthy and that is unhealthy and a year or two later it changes i can still remember medical personnel telling me a few eggs a week were something to stop now it's ok it just confuses people.

We knew a guy still working as a solicitor at 95 sharp as anything mentally, seemed fit and healthy. Apparently sat down one day in a waiting room and just passed away. I know a couple of other people around that age that just seem to keep on going - one drinks half a bottle of JD almost daily and claims to have done that almost all their life - wouldn't think he was much over 50 to look at.

Participant · 31 Mar 2019 at 06:18

It's a game of chance and probability.

Yes you might be lucky, smoking and drinking to excess until you're 85 then die 'in your sleep'.

You might also go out at 45 bleeding from your arse and constantly feeling that you're suffocating, whilst your family watches on in tears, scared of how much they'll miss you and wondering how they're going to pay the mortgage.

Doing things to excess increases the chance of the latter. It's a bit like an investment portfolio in terms of balancing risk and reward.

Cheery thought for the day.